Needless to say these ramblings are personal reflections and do not in any way represent official policy of the Fédération Protestante de France, my employer, nor of the churches I'm a minister of, the United Reformed Church and the Eglise Réformée de France.

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Tuesday, 8 September 2009

A former colleague in Jerusalem sent us this. It's good to think of Suzanne being part of the very loud and funky choir of angels....

If I Should Go Before the Rest of You

If I should go before the rest of you,Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone,Nor when I’m gone speak in a Sunday voice,But be the usual selves that I have known.Weep if you must,Parting is hell,But life goes on,So sing as well.

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Hi Jane,Thanks for your response, now I respond (trying to avoid dripping crocodile tears into the keyboard) to this post, with a poem that Suzanne shared with me - she was in Verbier:1983 and it goes like this:

A Swiss Good-Bye

The time will comewhen I will say good bye;kiss your cheek three timesand leave;a tear in my eyeand a heavy heartas I leave your armsforever.

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My name is Jane Stranz. I was born and brought up in Britain and am an ordained minister of the United Reformed Church, a small non-conformist church. For over 10 years I worked as a parish minister in the Eglise Réformée de France in Dunkerque, Chambéry and Ferney-Voltaire. Fom July 2002 to October 2011 I led the language service of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Currently I'm working on a two year mission on ecumenical relations, inter-religious dialogue and inter-cultural ministry with the Fédération Protestante de France based in Paris. It's going to be exciting and a steep learning curve. I'm married to Stephen Brown a journalist, researcher and theologian who works at Gobethics.net. Over the next two years we'll see how we manage a commuting marriage between Paris and Ferney Voltaire. Since 1999 I've been living with multiple sclerosis, sounds rather noble but really means I just live in denial and inject interferon b three times a week and count myself very lucky to live in a country with a great health care system.